Centre for the Study of Culture and Society

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Course 1004: De-disciplining Music

Tejaswini Niranjana

This course aims
to examine the way music features in different disciplines, and to trace some
of the central preoccupations of the study and practice of music in different
contexts. We will also explore how older discourses of culture located music,
and ask how cultural studies today might investigate those locations. While we
will read texts from diverse sources and traditions, the key questions we ask will
be anchored by the attempt to fashion a new vocabulary in which to discuss
music in India
in particular and the contemporary non-west in general.

Students are encouraged
to participate in the assembling and curating of the musical material for the
course, which will be hosted on a web platform.

Interview with
Gangubai Hangal (audio recording)Ernest Clements,
from Introduction to the Study of Indian
Music (View link here) S.M.Tagore, from
Hindu MusicLink found hereV.N.Bhatkhande, A Short Historical Survey of the Music of Upper India (View link here)

Janaki Bakhle,
“The Contradictions of Music’s Modernity” Link found hereAmanda Weidman,
“A Writing Lesson: Musicology and the Birth of the Composer” Link found hereTejaswini
Niranjana, “Transported by Song: Music and Cultural Labour in Dharwad” Link Found here